November 25, 2013

There’s a term of art that the Obama White House uses to describe its neurotic supporters who instantly race to the worst-case scenario: They are known as “bed-wetters.” Two months into the dysfunctional life of healthcare.gov, however, that seems a perfectly appropriate physiological reaction.

Anyone who thinks Obamacare will be imminently repealed or that Socialized Medicine will be vanquished in the USA is fooling themselves. The demographics of the nation have turned solidly left, and this will simply worsen with time. Socialized medicine is here to stay. This is a horrifying prospect, as I have family in the old country that has suffered quite a lot from their socialized medical services. But life seems to be filled with all sorts of idiocies and idiots, and the 45 and under generation has decided Europe - EUROPE! - is the model to follow. I can't think about it too much because it'll drive me to drinkin'.

"Liberals rallied around the Affordable Care Act because it was the best bill that could clear the Senate."

Really?

I mean, I know that Foer is writing an ironically-enjoyable navel inspection of how liberalism has been knifing itself in the foot (no shooting...guns, y'know). But of all the strangely delusional things for him to suggest: that Obamacare had to struggle through the same Democrat-controlled Congress that was in such a hurry to get it passed that they practically printed the signature pages on the bill first so they could sign the law into being before the rest of it made it off the presses?

If they had proposed a straightforward bill to the effect of: "We are proposing a new, regressive tax that will fall most heavily on young people so that we can expand Medicaid to cover more low-income and uninsurable people," they would have had a hard time rounding up 60 Democrats who would vote for it. They needed something that was as opaque as possible, with front-loaded goodies for the middle class and all the costs hidden as much as possible.

Clearly the plan is to attempt to ride out the storm and hope for the best. That might actually work. Expect increasing numbers of Democrats to throw Obama under the bus and call for a return to Clintonesque common sense and practicality. Of course, that will just be hot air; Obama is in place with his veto pen at the ready until January 2017. Even if the GOP takes control of the Senate next year and several red state Democrats cross the aisle, the liklihood that they'll be able to scrape up enough votes to override an Obama veto is pretty slim.

That takes us to 2016, when Hilliary can run in true Clinton style as the woman to "fix" the problems. After all, you can't trust a Republican to do that...they just want to repeal the whole thing and throw out the baby with the bathwater. Plus, they're a bunch of dangerous, Bible-thumpers who want to ban birth control, outlaw teaching evolution and put gays in concentration camps. Oh, and deport all the brown people. Yeah, that too.

If they can sell that line (and it's entirely possible that they can) expect a New Improved plan that will continue to move the ball ever closer to Single Payer.

So, at the end of the day, it's all about whether the voters wise up or whether they continue to follow the siren song of "Free Stuff!!".

Riding out the storm and hoping for the best is not a plan. And, yes, they will do what they have always done- first blame sabateurs (Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party) and then that the wrong people were in charge (pick any scapegoat). We know exactly what's coming. It probably cannot be headed off with the current crop of Republicans. We need a Presidential candidate with much, much better competence cred than Hillary- Scott Walker? He has the advantage that they have already thrown it all at him and the cacophony will have become background noise in three more years. Probably a good idea to get it cranked up now so it really wears out.

All his life, Obama just had to show up, period. Now he is expected to actually work. He has all the classic signs of a lazy man; chooses recreation whenever possible, has other people do his job when he can and always has an excuse that blames others when things go wrong.

The only way out for Obama and his Senate cronies is to urgently legalize illegals with amnesty so that 11 million new Democrats will have voting rights by 2016. Based on his recent history and after he stuffs the DC Court of Appeals, perhaps he is contemplating an executive order or two.

Foer thinks liberalism needs to be competent to be credible so Obamacare's display of incompetence threatens liberalism. Detroit doesn't threaten liberalism. California doesn't threaten liberalism. The failure of the War on Poverty, the public schools, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the imminent collapse of the welfare state in Europe and here....none of those threatens liberalism's credibility. Nope. It must just be these particular idiots in the Obama administration who are the problem, never the ideology.

Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, all mostly miserably poor throughout most of their Communist eras --yet the dictators die peacefully abed, after decades and decades of producing mostly misery for 'the people'.

Their secret is no secret, it's their secret police, the fellas who don't have to worry about no steenkin' courtrooms.

Jeez, i just had a terrible thought --what if Obama and his handlers KNOW all that?

Leftists always blame first sabateurs and then the wrong people having been in charge for the failure of their schemes. Never mind the piles of stinking corpses. The secret to unabated success in this endeavor is the ability to kill your political enemies.

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